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• Man accused of shooting Uber driver in Seattle said he had seven or eight tequila shots before accidentally firing at driver

  18-05-2019 22:37
  The 35-year-old man said his gun, which was in the waistband of his pants, discharged accidentally while he was getting out of the back seat of the car.
  
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• Man accused of shooting Uber driver in Seattle said he had 7 or 8 tequila shots before gun went off

  18-05-2019 22:37
  The 35-year-old man said his gun, which was in the waistband of his pants, discharged accidentally while he was getting out of the back seat of the car.
  
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• Wildlife authorities plan to kill cougar near Bend

  18-05-2019 20:59
  BEND, Ore. (AP) — Wildlife authorities say they’re planning to kill a mountain lion that’s been deemed a threat to public safety in Bend. The Bend Bulletin reports cougar activity has been reported five times near homes and businesses in southwest Bend since February. The Department of Fish and Wildlife says that in the last […]
  
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• Suit filed against University of Alaska, former professor

  18-05-2019 18:52
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A lawsuit has been filed against a retired University of Alaska Anchorage anthropology professor who is banned from campus over sexual misconduct allegations by multiple women. David Yesner is named in the federal lawsuit filed Wednesday along with The University of Alaska system and the University of Alaska Board of Regents, […]
  
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• Kenai Peninsula educators mull strike after labor talks fail

  18-05-2019 18:50
  KENAI, Alaska (AP) — Officials with two labor unions say a strike is possible after negotiations with the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District deteriorated. KSRM Radio reports the Kenai Peninsula Education Association and the Kenai Peninsula Educational Support Association say in a release that the most contentious issue is the high cost of health insurance […]
  
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• Abortion rights demonstration held on Cannes red carpet

  18-05-2019 18:33
  CANNES, France (AP) — Ahead of Saturday’s premiere of an Argentine documentary on abortion, dozens of women demonstrated for abortion rights on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival in France. Women, including the filmmakers and activists seen in the film, waved green handkerchiefs and carried a large banner while walking the Cannes carpet […]
  
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• Police ID teen tackled after bringing gun to Oregon school

  18-05-2019 17:47
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Police have released the identity of an 18-year-old student who was tackled after reportedly bringing a gun into classroom at an Oregon high school. The Portland Police Bureau said Saturday that Angel Granados Dias had been booked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on suspicion of possessing a firearm in a […]
  
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• Iconic Prospector signs come down in Juneau

  18-05-2019 16:00
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — As the large, iconic yellow signs came down from the side of the Ramada by Wyndham hotel in Juneau — formerly known as the Prospector Hotel — Jessica Meacham watched with mixed emotions. Meacham, manager at the hotel, has worked there since 2008, working her way up from being a breakfast […]
  
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• Ground broken for Storyknife Writers Retreat near Homer

  18-05-2019 16:00
  HOMER, Alaska (AP) — Under sunny skies and in a crisp westerly breeze, supporters of the Storyknife Writers Retreat on May 4 attended groundbreaking ceremonies for a main house and cabins that will house visiting women authors. Homer writer and Storyknife founder Dana Stabenow turned the first bit of earth at the property just north […]
  
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• Woman gets 3 years for giving infant nearly fatal methadone

  18-05-2019 15:10
  CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — An Albany woman arrested for giving her infant a nearly fatal dose of methadone has been sentenced to more than three years in prison. The Gazette-Times reports 34-year-old Magan McDermott was sentenced in Benton County Circuit Court Friday. McDermott pleaded guilty to charges of causing another to ingest a controlled substance […]
  
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• Employees are pressuring Amazon to become a leader on climate. Here’s how that could work.

  18-05-2019 15:00
  Climate-change experts wonder how seriously Amazon is taking the crisis. A shareholder vote on Wednesday and a plan to disclose companywide greenhouse gas emissions later this year could provide answers.
  
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• Man sentenced for threatening to assault Oregon senator

  18-05-2019 14:55
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Beaverton man who threatened to harm Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden on a voice mail message was sentenced to two years of federal supervision. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that court records show James Sickler left a two-minute message on the phone line of Oregon Health Authority’s state registrar March 3. Documents say […]
  
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• Yellowstone proposes more housing for summer workers

  18-05-2019 14:52
  MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park is proposing to add more housing for seasonal workers employed by private companies operating inside the park. Park administrators are taking public comment on plans to construct six modular houses and up to 14 RV sites at the Canyon Campground and up to 25 RV sites […]
  
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• Man pleads guilty in fatal Everett apartment fire

  18-05-2019 14:45
  An Everett man who set an apartment complex on fire in 2017 has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and arson for killing a woman in the fire.
  
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• In abortion debates, female lawmakers recount their rapes

  18-05-2019 14:07
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — For more than two decades, Nancy Mace did not speak publicly about her rape. In April, when she finally broke her silence, she chose the most public of forums — before her colleagues in South Carolina’s legislature. A bill was being debated that would ban all abortions after a fetal heartbeat […]
  
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• Female lawmakers speak about rapes as abortion bills advance

  18-05-2019 14:07
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — For more than two decades, Nancy Mace did not speak publicly about her rape. In April, when she finally broke her silence, she chose the most public of forums — before her colleagues in South Carolina’s legislature. A bill was being debated that would ban all abortions after a fetal heartbeat […]
  
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• Abortion debates prompt rape testimony from female lawmakers

  18-05-2019 14:07
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — For more than two decades, Nancy Mace did not speak publicly about her rape. In April, when she finally broke her silence, she chose the most public of forums — before her colleagues in South Carolina’s legislature. A bill was being debated that would ban all abortions after a fetal heartbeat […]
  
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• Slog PM: Washington Recruits Mussel-Sniffing Puppy, Koalas Are on the Brink of Extinction in Australia, This Is My Last Slog PM

  18-05-2019 04:06 via thestranger.com
  
  by Nathalie GrahamG'day? No. G'bye.GETTY IMAGES
  Slog PM tonight is brought to you by a little development: Tonight is my last Slog PM. I'll still be around at The Stranger but as the city council race heats up and election season descends upon us (there really is nothing we can do about this) my skills (unsure what these are but have been told they exist) are needed elsewhere. So click my byline from time to time if you miss me and my exhaustive use of parentheticals.I am stale and old just like
  
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• ‘Stuck until the end of time:’ How a story of a ghost Jaguar just keeps getting weirder

  18-05-2019 04:00
  When I finally reach Philip Corsano, 6,000 miles from Seattle in one of those central Italian towns known for its hills and Roman walls, he is in a jovial mood. “I am over here gardening, and blissfully minding my own business,” the former north Seattle resident reports. “Or I thought I was.” Nope. You’re going […]
  
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• Here’s Who’s Officially Running for Seattle City Council, Let's Place Bets on Who the Chamber Will Try to Buy with Their Amazon Gold, and More City Council Election News

  18-05-2019 03:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Here's the latest Seattle City Council election news.by Lester Black Lester Black
  Here's who's running: Today was the filing deadline for this year’s election and according to the King County Elections office, 56 candidates filed to run for Seattle City Council. The election agency was expecting to see a record breaking 700 candidates file for offices across the county, but ultimately only 613 candidates are running, which is actually less than the 634 who filed in 2017.
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• The Present Attack on the Rights of Women Is a Symptom of an Economy in Decline

  18-05-2019 02:54 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede Tassii/gettyimages.com
  The deepest insight in what will certainly be the most important book on economics this decade, Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st century, is easy to understand. It explains why a popular hypothesis by the mid-century American economist Simon Kuznets turned out to be very wrong. The hypothesis claims that as an economy grows, inequality declines. The main reason for this, Kuznets believed, is industrialization, a process that moves workers from the pov
  
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• The Attack on the Rights of Women, as With Voter Suppression, Is Returning the US to the Days of Uncle Tom's Cabin

  18-05-2019 02:54 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede Tassii/gettyimages.com
  The deepest insight in what will certainly be the most important book on economics this decade, Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st century, is easy to understand. It explains why a popular hypothesis by the mid-century American economist Simon Kuznets turned out to be very wrong. The hypothesis claims that as an economy grows, inequality declines. The main reason for this, Kuznets believed, is industrialization, a process that moves workers from the pov
  
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• King County woman diagnosed with measles in sixth Western Washington case

  18-05-2019 02:43
  All six people spent time at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, and the cases point to a common exposure from an unidentified person contagious with measles on April 25, likely in the morning, health officials said Friday.
  
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• Hundreds file to run in local elections, including 56 for Seattle City Council

  18-05-2019 02:26
  An unequal distribution of candidates means that while some races will be bitterly fought, others will be all but perfunctory. In total, 609 people filed for 337 offices.
  
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• Seattle’s school board enters a game of musical chairs with five seats opening soon

  18-05-2019 02:25
  Four of seven seats on the Seattle School Board will be up for grabs this November, and nearly all of the 14 people interested in filling them are newcomers. By the King County Elections online filing deadline, Board President Leslie Harris was the only incumbent with a registered campaign.
  
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• Seattle School Board: 5 seats open up, but Betty Patu’s actions ensure public can’t vote on her successor

  18-05-2019 02:25
  Four of seven seats on the Seattle School Board will be up for grabs this November, and nearly all of the 14 people interested in filling them are newcomers. By the King County Elections online filing deadline, Board President Leslie Harris was the only incumbent with a registered campaign.
  
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• West Seattle man sentenced to 25 years for raping woman who suffered a stroke after car crash

  18-05-2019 02:16
  Chayce Hanson was sentenced to just over 25 years in prison after he was convicted last month of second-degree rape, second-degree assault with sexual motivation, felony hit-and-run and witness tampering for attempting to get his victim to recant the rape allegation.
  
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• Ron & Don Nation rejoice! Popular radio personalities turn to podcast and real estate

  18-05-2019 02:00
  The radio personalities are preparing to launch a podcast on May 27, more than four months after their popular drive-time show was abruptly canceled by KIRO-FM without explanation.
  
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• New signs on I-90 warn drivers of traffic backups at Highway 18 interchange

  18-05-2019 01:21
  The two signs alert drivers to slow or stopped vehicles ahead in the right lane as heavy traffic exiting onto Highway 18 backs up onto the freeway.
  
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• Game of Thrones Sees Internet Petition Make Disproportionate News Thanks to Lazy Entertainment Writers Staring at Twitter All Day

  18-05-2019 01:00 via thestranger.com
  by Bobby Roberts HBO
  A tiny fraction of the overall audience (18.4 million viewers) for the most popular television show currently airing—HBO’s 239 Emmy-awards-winning Game of Thrones—have spent the last few weeks drunk on memes, review-bombing recent episodes to little fanfare or notice. But seeing as time is short, and this Sunday evening both the show and their misguided purpose in life will draw to a close, this small-but-boisterous cloister of zealots in the polytheistic m
  
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• Eastern Memories: A Visual Feast of a Road Movie into the Far East of Mongolia and Japan

  18-05-2019 00:26 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithSheep culture in Mongolia.
  You’d think there would be more egregious displays of Orientalism in a documentary that fuses the journal entries of a late-19th-century Finnish diplomat (G.J. Ramstedt) with visually stunning, modern-day footage of Mongolia and Japan, but the documentarians of Eastern Memories largely avoid that. The film mostly focuses on Ramstedt’s observations of Mongolian and Japanese philosophy, namely various iterations of the notion of impermanence. The
  
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• Social Media Companies Are Banning Extremists. Others Are Getting Caught in the Crossfire.

  18-05-2019 00:15 via thestranger.com
  
  The Alex Joneses of the world are not the only people being banned from social media.by Katie HerzogProtein powder salesman Alex Jones was banned from more social media platforms this month. Getty Images/OLI SCARFF
  I find few issues more ethically perplexing than censorship. Not censorship by the government—the Founding Fathers (or First Daddies, if you prefer) made that one pretty easy for us. Legally, constitutionally, morally, the government cannot abridge the freedom of speech. If you
  
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